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Believers Hymn Book · No. 203 · Words: Charles Wesley · Tune: Marienberg
O love divine, how sweet Thou art!
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A Charles Wesley hymn from 1749 expressing ardent longing for deeper experience of divine love, drawing on the image of Mary sitting at Jesus's feet. It is a devotional meditation on the soul's thirst for union with Christ.
Verse 1
O love divine, how sweet Thou art!
When shall I find my longing heart
All taken up by Thee?
O may I pant and thirst to prove
The greatness of redeeming love!
The love of Christ to me.
Verse 2
God only knows the love of God:
O that it more were shed abroad
In this poor longing heart!
For love I sigh, for love I pine;
This only portion, Lord, be mine,
Be mine this better part.
Verse 3
O that I may for ever sit,
Like Mary, at the Master's feet!
Be this my happy choice;
My only care, my only bliss,
My joy, my heaven on earth be this,To hear the Bridegroom's voice.
Verse 4
O that I may like favoured John
Recline my wearied head upon
My Saviour's loving breast!
From care, and sin, and sorrow free,
Give me, O Lord, to find in Thee
My everlasting rest.
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